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title: If from thy board he turns he stands forsworn, By Geisa bound[14] no… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If from thy board he turns he stands forsworn, By Geisa bound[14] no good man’s feast to scorn. Who acts: Fergus, Geisa. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 48

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If from thy board he turns he stands forsworn, By Geisa bound\[14\] no good man’s feast to scorn.

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**Who acts:** Fergus, Geisa · **What happens:** turn, forswear, bind, scorn · **To what, where:** board, Fergus, 14

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus, Geisa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:5:48
# text = If from thy board he turns he stands forsworn, By Geisa bound[14] no good man’s feast to scorn.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forsworn	forswear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Geisa	Geisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	scorn	scorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Fergus |  |  | thy board |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forswear** | present · passive |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind** | past | Geisa | 14 |  |  |  | no good man's feast *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **scorn** | to-infinitive | Geisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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